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<blockquote data-quote="plat" data-source="post: 893419" data-attributes="member: 74969">Andy Ful:&nbsp; out of curiosity, does Firewall Hardening effectively block any outbound calls from Microsoft Store?&nbsp; I looked at the Outbound rules section of Windows Firewall and the Store is allowed.&nbsp;&nbsp; But I&#039;m not sure what this &quot;Allow&quot; rule entitles the Store to do exactly.&nbsp; I&#039;d like to block the Store from doing anything but then I&#039;m concerned that I can&#039;t update any apps there--which is the preference to do so manually and not have it run in the background. Yes, there was someone at another forum expressing concern about Skype installing itself without the owner&#039;s knowledge/permission.&nbsp; So this prompted my question.&nbsp; <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😬" title="Grimacing face&nbsp; &nbsp; :grimacing:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.6/png/unicode/64/1f62c.png" data-shortname=":grimacing:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="plat, post: 893419, member: 74969"] Andy Ful: out of curiosity, does Firewall Hardening effectively block any outbound calls from Microsoft Store? I looked at the Outbound rules section of Windows Firewall and the Store is allowed. But I'm not sure what this "Allow" rule entitles the Store to do exactly. I'd like to block the Store from doing anything but then I'm concerned that I can't update any apps there--which is the preference to do so manually and not have it run in the background. Yes, there was someone at another forum expressing concern about Skype installing itself without the owner's knowledge/permission. So this prompted my question. 😬 [/QUOTE]

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